Saturday, November 3, 2012

Benghazi Blunders And Energy Policy Revealed

The Las Vegas Review Journal has put out an article that if it gets in to the wider media is a body blow to the myth of Obama being a supporter of American prosperity In the article they contain such gems as this:

Back in January 2008, Barack Obama told the editorial board of the San
Francisco Chronicle that under his cap-and-trade plan, "If somebody
wants to build a coal-fired power plant, they can. It's just that it
will bankrupt them." He added, "Under my plan ... electricity rates
would necessarily skyrocket." It was also in 2008 that Mr. Obama's
future Energy Secretary, Steven Chu, famously said it would be necessary
to "figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in
Europe" - $9 a gallon.

If that wasn't damning enough it uses the various communications, official and otherwise, too and from the white house to discuss just how incompetent the administration has been in the face of the "incident" in Libya which our president found to be "not optimal".

The official explanation for the inadequate security? This
administration didn't want to "offend the sensibilities" of the new
radical Islamic regime which American and British arms had so recently
helped install in Libya.
The official explanation for why Obama
administration officials watched the attack unfold for seven hours,
refusing repeated requests to send the air support and relief forces
that sat less than two hours away in Italy? Silence.
An open
discussion of these issues, of course, would lead to difficult questions
about the wisdom of underwriting and celebrating the so-called Arab
Spring revolts in the first place. While the removal of tyrants can be
laudable, the results show a disturbing pattern of merely installing new
tyrannies - theocracies of medieval mullahs who immediately start
savaging the rights of women (including the basic right to education)
and who are openly hostile to American interests.

It's my opinion this is the sort of body blow that could sink Obama's reelection efforts if it got out more readily, read the whole thing here.